In the extended enterprise context, many stakeholders act on the product during all its lifecycle. They influence the product development and managers have to be able to control all the activities and their interactions that are generating the different processes. They have also to manage each actor involved in the project during the product lifecycle. In this paper, propose an approach to iden...

Product development organizations are unwilling to compromise product functionality, unit cost, or time to market in order to create products that have less environmental impact than that required by regulations. Thus, designers may face a conflict between improving product functionality and reducing environmental impact. The design for environment (DfE) tools currently available are inadequate...

Information technology has played an increasingly important role in engineering product development. Its influence over the past decade has been accelerating and its impact in the coming decade will undoubtedly be immense. This paper surveys several research areas relating to knowledge representation, capture and retrieval, which will have a growing influence on product development. Each of the...

United States industry spends billions of dollars as a result of poor interoperability between computer-aided engineering software tools. While ongoing standards development efforts are attempting to address this problem in today's tools, the more signi®cant demand in nextgeneration tools will be for representations that allow information used or generated during various product development act...

In recent decades, new methodologies have emerged in architectural design that exploit the computer as a design tool.This has generated a varied set of digital skills and a new type of architectural knowledge. However, up to now, a theoretical framework is missing that would allow for a comprehensive pedagogical agenda for the teaching of digital design in architecture.The present paper offers ...

Although quality function deployment (QFD) is mostly used in the development of new products, the methodology is equally varied and applied as a packaging design/development tool. Since the demands of the market, i.e. users are constantly changing, the designers of all products, including packaging food designers must implement the introduced requirements into the design of their products. The ...

Addressing the preservation and long-term access issues for digital resources is one of the key challenges facing informational organisations such as libraries, archives, cultural institutions and government agencies today. A number of major initiatives and projects have been established to investigate or develop strategies for preserving the burgeoning amounts of digital content being produced...

Since the availability of information is a prerequisite for efficient Concurrent Engineering (CE), information and communication structures have to be designed carefully. However, current practice is often based on a trialand-error approach resulting in inefficient communication. Existing methods especially concentrate on which information has to be delivered to whom in terms of output-input re...

This paper summarizes results related to a novel algorithmic approach for verifying stability of hybrid systems. The traditional approach based on Lyapunov function search suffers from several disadvantages — it relies on the user expertise to obtain good templates for the Lyapunov function; further, an unsuccessful attempt at instantiating the templates provides no insights into the choice of ...

Cooperative structures of product development and production are gaining more and more importance. In the following paper, we will examine how organizational structures spanning multiple companies influence the use of information technology in knowledge management. We will identify requirements to information technology used for knowledge management in cooperations and evaluate the suitability ...